Factoring in NPR's list, here's how the top of my previous list changes:
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (10)The Weeknd - Dawn FM (9)Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems (9)Rosalia - Motomami (8)The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention (8)Earl Sweatshirt - Sick! (7)Wet Leg - Wet Leg (7)Kendrick Lamar - Mr Morale & The Big Steppers (7)
Here are the albums that are only on NPR's list:
Dan Romer - Station Eleven SoundtrackGirl Ultra - El SurGuitarricadelafuente - La CanteraHarvey Sutherland - BoyImmanuel Wilkins - The 7th HandJogging House - WeightJóhann Jóhannsson - Drone MassKojey Radical - Reason to SmileMUNA - MUNAPeter Cocooma - A Place to BeginSamm Henshaw - Untidy SoulSaya Gray - 19 MastersShortie No Mass - here goes nothing.Straw Man Army - SOSSwsh - GoodboyX Alfonso - Ancestros SinfónicoYeat - 2 Alive
― Indexed, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 16:38 (one year ago) link
a lot of these don't seem like AOTY material (DawnFM? Seriously) But maybe people don't really make those anymore. I figure Kendrick will top a bunch of lists and people will complain about it.
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
Dawn FM is pretty good! Lopatin worked some magic. Easily the most compelling stuff I've heard from The Weeknd since the initial EP mixtapes. Agreed it won't be many people's AOTY but there are always near-universally "liked" albums that bubble to the top in group voting exercises.
― Indexed, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
i checked, it's still Rema
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
Straw Man Army rules! Good job, NPR.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
AOTY is going to be the new Soccer Mommy, based on the singles
― boxedjoy, Friday, 17 June 2022 16:03 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
I was so right about this
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
you were!!!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
wifigawd - chain of command
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
The 50 best albums I've heard so far this year.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
Maybe it's not AOTY level, but I want to take a moment to rep for Flasher - Love is Yours which is, at the very least, a better post-punk-pop record than Wet Leg's debut (and I *like* Wet Leg). Their last one, Constant Image was my most-played album of 2018. This band is perennially under-praised, IMO.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
That's a good list unperson, a few more I need to check out now and glad to see some love for that Ecstatic Vision record. I've been a big fan of them and I think the new one is one of their best.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 29 June 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
The ILM outlier at the top of this list appears to be Soul Glo. The last post I found on the band was from 2019.
Soul Glo’s rise to hardcore heroism would be greater cause for celebration if it weren’t such a damning indictment of American society. Since forming in 2014, the Philly quartet has garnered modest acclaim for airing their righteous grievances against being both tokenized and ostracized as a Black punk band, all while sparing no detail on hypocrisy within their own community, our broken health care system, generational trauma, and the false promises of higher education and upward mobility. By the time Americans en masse were starting to admit that things were as fucked up as Soul Glo had been saying, they’d put out their first widely distributed release, Songs to Yeet at the Sun, in November 2020. The message hadn’t changed, but more people were actually willing to listen. Nearly two years later, none of Soul Glo’s calls for political action have been answered in a meaningful way. “It’s been ‘fuck right wing’ off the rip/But still liberals are more dangerous,” Pierce Jordan snarls midway through Soul Glo’s staggering new album, Diaspora Problems, a ticking time bomb hurled by a band tired of waiting on solutions and taking power into its own hands. - Ian Cohen @p4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4vNQ3vEy24
― Indexed, Wednesday, 29 June 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
The brand-new Kabza De Small album, KOA II, Part 1, is a likely candidate too.― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), vrijdag 17 juni 2022 10:18
― butt-mooning is a polysemous word, hoss! (breastcrawl), vrijdag 17 juni 2022 10:18
no kidding
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 10 July 2022 09:59 (one year ago) link
Wormrot are an amazing grindcore band from Singapore; Hiss, which came out on Friday, is their first album in six years, and it's definitely going to be on my year-end list. This video is for three tracks from the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVk_C_wp1j0
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 10 July 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
Sick video.
― jmm, Sunday, 10 July 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
if you're excited by the prospect of Ron Trent making a gorgeous balearic album then you're in luck with his latest
― ignore the blue line (or something), Sunday, 10 July 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
Enjoying the Mr Fingers album, tis the season
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 July 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
try that Kabza De Small album next, you might like it
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 10 July 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Cheers
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
I just don't keep up any more but I was dipping into Amapiano stuff last year and I'm very up for it
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
cool - the chances of you liking it have gone up significantly!
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
listening now - sold
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 08:20 (one year ago) link
not just sold, this is fire
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
Surprised not to see Nicola Cruz - self oscillation anywhere in this thread. Top ten for me for sure
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 09:03 (one year ago) link
ok that sounds great too
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 09:16 (one year ago) link
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 10:26 (one year ago) link
More vocals than I expected and it really works, whole lush vibe to it
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 10:28 (one year ago) link
The 5 best things I listened to in the past month:
01 Gavilán Rayna Russom - Trans Feminist Symphonic Music02 Kali Malone - Living Torch03 E L U C I D - I Told Bessie04 yoo doo right - A Murmur, Boundless to the East05 Extra Life - Secular Works, Vol. 2
― Sonned by a comedy podcast after a dairy network beef (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 12:16 (one year ago) link
damn didn’t realize there was a new yoo doo right album!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
Ooh, given I love two of those, will make sense to check out the other three
― ban, buddy (imago), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
I love the Taj Mahal/Ry Cooder album.enjoyed the singles will check out
Real Lies and Big Thief made great albums but I mostly listen to selected tracks from them
enjoyed the Kurt Vile album but stopped listening to it after a while
other favesFresh Pepper - s/tCharles Lloyd, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan - Trios: ChapelJoan Shelley - The Spur
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
Really surprised to see so much critical love for Dawn FM. I've listened a couple of times and found it bland and sterile. Even OPN's input can't save The Weeknd from himself. And I'm a huge OPN stan.
Real Lies I also found very monochrome tbh.
I've been giving Big Thief and Cloakroom a go based on this thread. Both are really growing on me. I need to give the new Sharon Van Etten a proper spin too.
My picks so far:Soccer MommyHorsegirlEmily WellsCharli XCX (not her best but still a banger)Wet Leg
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, 4 August 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link
Oh shit and the new Beyonce of course. Can't see that not topping a shitload of year-end lists.
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, 4 August 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
Holy shit this Yeule album is good. Missed it when it first came out. Can't stop listening now. Really surprised there's not more hype around this one.
― The Ghost Club, Friday, 5 August 2022 05:28 (one year ago) link
Big Thief, Real Lies and this new Chat Pile album are going to be hard to top
― gman59, Friday, 5 August 2022 06:16 (one year ago) link
here are some of my faves so far
https://stabscotch.bandcamp.com/album/prison-jarhttps://vrsex.bandcamp.com/album/rough-dimensionhttps://extralife.bandcamp.com/album/secular-works-vol-2https://craigfortnam.bandcamp.com/album/instrumental-music-1https://scarcity-nyc.bandcamp.com/album/aveilut
see also: imperial triumphant, patricia taxxon (for 'visiting narcissa'), half man half biscuit, of montreal, sb the moor, fievel is glauque, elucid, holy scum, baby zionov, adigery/pupul etc etc
― ban, buddy (imago), Friday, 5 August 2022 09:24 (one year ago) link
pleasantly surprised by horsegirl, lots of promise here, we needed a new swirlies tbh
― ban, buddy (imago), Friday, 5 August 2022 10:41 (one year ago) link
do fievel is glaque have a new album out?
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 5 August 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
i meant the aerodynes ep, which is incredible but has been temporarily removed from streaming due to 'exciting developments'
― ban, buddy (imago), Friday, 5 August 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
https://thenativemag.com/best-african-projects-2022-so-far/have only heard about half of these, so there’s some exploring to do, but they’ve got my number one and two *almost* right
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 6 August 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
Dunno if this will even end up in play for my EOY favorites, but right now I'm really loving it. Did a search and she's been mentioned in our jazz threads for several years, but this is the first time I've ever noticed Cécile McLorin Salvant. What a good fuckin record!
https://cecilemclorinsalvant.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-song
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
Just heard the new Lucius today. Not sure whether it's AOY material, but I really dig it. I love their aesthetic.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 10 August 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
Posted this in the indie thread but fans of the Big Thief should also check out the new Florist s/t. More intimate and so maybe reminds me more of The Glow, Pt II but will appeal to the same crowd, I think.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
Yeah, loving the new Florist album
― groovypanda, Thursday, 11 August 2022 06:52 (one year ago) link
saw them play last night and it was really great. Emily is very charming on stage! the whole band ended up at the bar my friend and i went to afterwards and it was fun to sneak looks of them just having a grand ol' time together
― Clay, Thursday, 11 August 2022 07:26 (one year ago) link
A few current picks in absolutely no order:
Megan - TraumazineBeyonce - RenaissanceMr Mitch - WORK!Soccer96 - Inner WorldsKylie Minogue - Infinite DiscoReal Lies - Lad AshCharlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul - Topical DancerSomi - Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam MakebaKoffee - GiftedSyd - Broken Hearts ClubSault - AirImmanuel Wilkins - The 7th HandNduduzo Makhathini - In the Spirit of NtuGermán López - AlmaMiranda Lambert - PalominoBurna Boy - Love, DaminiViagra Boys - Cave WorldPUBLIQuartet - What is AmericanKendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and The Big SteppersMu-Ziq - Magic Pony RideCecile McLorin Salvant - Ghost SongJulius Rodriguez - Let Sound Tell AllSam Gendel - SuperstoreHollie Cook - Happy Hour
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
Nice forks. Is the Hollie Cook any kind of departure for her? I always like her stuff but it never quite transcends its roots for me
did anyone mention finally, new by they hate change? so good― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, June 18, 2022 12:34 PM (two months ago)
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, June 18, 2022 12:34 PM (two months ago)
listened to half of this earlier and it was kind of amazing? I'm going to resist trying to sum it up until I hear more but it deserves more ILM attention for the production alone (essentially: jungle + Miami bass)
I keep meaning to do a list of albums & tracks but never feel like I'm caught up enough
― rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
hollie cook's new one is basically more of the same, but that's good enough for me
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
This is more like rolling favorites than AOTY and in no particular order, but:
Rema - Rave & RosesSofie Birch - HolotropicaSimon Hunt - the hiatusOKI - Tonkori in the Moonlight (kind of cheating as this is a comp, but it's great: reggae-influenced Ainu folk)Naima Bock - Giant PalmNilüfer Yanya - PainlessLoris S. Sarid - Seabed-SunbathKoffee - GiftedGwenno - TresorDaniel Villareal - Panamá 77Axel Boman - LUZ/Quest for FireThe Ano Nobo Quartet - The Strings of São DomingosAnna Butterss - ActivitiesMoor Mother - Jazz CodesBurna Boy - Love, DaminiSessa - Estrela Acesa
EPs of note:Skillibeng - Mr UniverseLynn Avery & Cole Pulice - To Live & Die in Space & TimeFlo - The LeadBNXN - Bad Since '97
― rob, Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
I love these lists because I don't know 95% of these albums. I like waiting until the end of the year and scanning all these personal faves for the albums that pop up on multiple lists, to give me a good point of entry.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 August 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link